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Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Gastrotheca lauzuricae De la Riva, 1992

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hemiphractidae > Genus: Gastrotheca > Species: Gastrotheca lauzuricae

Gastrotheca lauzuricae De la Riva, 1992, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 6: 18. Holotype: CET 501, by original designation. Type locality: "La Siberia, a 40 Km de Comarapa en dirección a Poho (17° 48′ S/64° 46′ O), provincia Carrasco, departamento de Cochabamba, 2800 m", Bolivia.

Gastrotheca piperata Duellman and Köhler, 2005, J. Herpetol., 39: 92. Holotype: ZFMK 66838, by original designation. Type locality: "Sehuencas (17° 29′ S, 65° 17′ W, 2150 m a.s.l.), Provincia Carrasco, Departamento de Cochabamba, Bolivia". Synonymy by implication of Köhler, Koch, Garlacz, Preick, De la Riva, and Vences, 2024, Salamandra, 60: 263–282.

Gastrotheca (Gastrotheca) piperata — Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 363.

Common Names

La Siberia Marsupial Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).

Distribution

Upper montane and cloud forests of the eastern slopes of the Andes in the departments of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz at elevations of 1850–2800 m.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia

Endemic: Bolivia

Comment

Recognized as distinct by Köhler, Koch, Garlacz, Preick, De la Riva, and Vences, 2024, Salamandra, 60: 263–282, who discussed the evidentiary issues. Previously it had been considered a synonym of Gastrotheca coeruleomaculata by Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 298, and of Gastrotheca splendens by Lansac, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2021, Zootaxa, 5068: 211.

Comment under former record of Gastrotheca piperata: Nominal Gastrotheca piperata is similar to Gastrotheca marsupiata according to the original publication. In the Gastrotheca marsupiata group of Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, De la Riva, Pombal, Silva, Rojas-Runjaic, Medina-Méndez, and Frost, 2015, Zootaxa, 4004: 1–72. See detailed account (as Gastrotheca piperata) by Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 363–369. Removed from the synonymy of Gastrotheca splendens by Köhler, Koch, Garlacz, Preick, De la Riva, and Vences, 2024, Salamandra, 60: 263–282, where it had been placed by Lansac, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2021, Zootaxa, 5068: 271–272.

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